| 单词 | roundworm |
| 释义 | roundworm (once / 139051 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY roundworm: roundworms USAGE EXAMPLESBut it was shut down in 2010 after a nematode — a roundworm that lives on plants — was discovered that could threaten potato crops. Washington Times(Nov 05, 2016) He said a client’s child at his practice in Greensboro, N.C., nearly lost an eye from a roundworm infection. New York Times(Oct 21, 2016) Last year, the prize was shared by three scientists for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites. The Guardian(Oct 03, 2016) 1 n unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper nematode, nematode worm Ascaris lumbricoides, common roundworm intestinal parasite of humans and pigs Ascaridia galli, chicken roundwormintestinal parasite of domestic fowl Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm, threadwormsmall threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children eelwormany of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm, wheatwormsmall roundworm parasitic on wheat Trichinella spiralis, trichinaparasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles hookwormparasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts filariaslender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects Dracunculus medinensis, Guinea wormparasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates Anguillula aceti, Turbatrix aceti, vinegar eel, vinegar wormminute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar worm any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae n infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches Syn|Hypo|Hyper ringworm, tinea dhobi itch fungal infection attacking moist parts of the body kerionringworm infection of the hair follicles of the scalp and beard that usually results in a swelling that is covered with pustules and oozes fluid athlete's foot, tinea pedisfungal infection of the feet barber's itch, tinea barbaefungal infection of the face and neck tinea capitisfungal infection of the scalp characterized by bald patches tinea corporisfungal infection of nonhairy parts of the skin eczema marginatum, jock itch, tinea crurisfungal infection of the groin (most common in men) tinea unguiumfungal infection of the nails (especially toenails) fungal infection, mycosis an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus |
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